norton antivirus 2011 stopped working

i installed 2011 back in oct 2010 when it was first released.   has been working fine all this time until today when i tried to to a complete computer scan.  when i selected scan nothing happens.  i tried doing a quick scan but around  6300 files scanned.nothing else happens.  i let it run for the pas 2 hours but it has scanned no further files.  now it will not close down.  any ideas?